A Study Regarding the Re-treatment of the Balance Sheet and of the Profit and Loss Account under Circumstances of Inflation and Hyper-inflation Approached According to the Conception of International Financial Reporting Standards

Mariana Man and Raluca Elisabeta Felea
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Mariana Man: University of Petroşani, Romania
Raluca Elisabeta Felea: University of Petroşani, Romania

Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics, 2007, vol. 7, 225-242

Abstract: Inflation constantly has been seen as a controversial economic phenomenon that has generated numberless chronic lacks of balance in economy. In a hyper-inflationist economy the report without inflation re-treatment of the balance sheet and the profit and loss account is no more relevant for those who use accounting data, and the 90s’ Romania certainly faced such a hyper-inflationist economy. As the evaluation basis in accountancy is historic cost, and, due to the fact that under circumstances of high inflation, historic cost suffers a series of changes that distort reality, several accounting methods are employed. Theses accounting methods under circumstances of inflation may rely on conversion, evaluation or other mixed methods that consist in re-treating the financial reports of the companies at opening and closing these financial reports. As under the present circumstances a too rapid economic growth is envisaged for Romania that might determine the increase of inflation, the re-treatment of the balance sheet and of the results account could be a necessity in the future.

Keywords: inflation; balance sheet; profit; loss; re-treatment; evaluation; index; adjustment; price; hyper-inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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